Memorable Quotes - Page 22

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says "yes" to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says "Maybe," and in the great majority of cases simply "No." If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter "Maybe," and if it does not agree it means "No." Probably every theory will some day experience its "No" - most theories, soon after conception.

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.

What a deformed thief this fashion is.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.

I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.

Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me.

I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.

A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills, no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.

In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

A psychologically engrossing novel about the homes we make-in our houses, in our neighborhoods, and in the hearts of our loved ones. Laken takes on that great unspoken American subject-class-and does so with frankness, acuity and surpassing feeling. DREAM HOUSE is a memorable debut novel from a fully mature talent.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.